Query: *
Frank Kenjockety and Louis Belmont Newell Native American Entertainers collection
Creators:
Newell, Louis Belmont
Kenjockety, Frank
Kenjockety, Frank
Dates:
1886-1940
Size:
2 Linear feet
39 Photographs
39 Photographs
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.025
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
The Frank Kenjockety and Louis B. Newell Native American Entertainers collection includes ephemera, documents and photographs from two prominent Native American [entertainers] Frank Kenjockety (Cayuga), also known as "Chief Strong Fox" and Louis Belmont Newell, also known as "Rolling Thunder". Kenjockety's collection contains photographs, ephemera and a small amount of personal records from his career as a circus troupe leader and lecturer from 1909-1940. Newell's collection contains ephemera from his career as a traveling Medicine Man and entertainer including remedy and ointment packaging as well as broadsides and flyers.
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